THERE IS NO SUNDAY LUNCH THIS SUNDAY

We are seeking meal ministers for Sunday’s in November. Please consider serving.

OKTOBERFEST TAG

(Oktoberfest Day) is fast approaching!! Come to the Spaulding Farm Clubhouse and celebrate Reformation 500 with your SMLC family and friends. Great food, lively music, door prizes. Tickets are available only through October 15 (next Sunday) in the Gathering Area or online from Jenny Lord ( jennymom678@gmail.com). No tickets can be sold at the door. See today’s insert for details. Plan now to join us on October 20!

OCTOBER SAINTS ALIVE:

The October Saints Alive meeting will be Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 12:15 in the Social Hall. This will be a pot-luck lunch. Bob and Bonnie Dietrick will present their pictorial visit to The Ark Encounter located in Williamstown, KY. It is a full-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark. Their program should be quite enjoyable. Please mark your calendars now and plan to enjoy with your St. Michael family.

THE PUMPKIN PATCH IS RETURNING!

Many volunteers are needed throughout the month. The link to sign up is here: http:// www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d4facaf2aaa8-arcum1. This joint effort of the AR- CUM churches – Augusta Road Churches United for Ministry – supports area servant ministries. Last year The Samaritan House, Pleasant Valley Connection, and The Mother Teresa House each received $1,159.37. We believe this effort has greater po- tential. If you have questions or need more information, please see Dave Cook, Ton- jia Groblewski, or either pastor. We are grateful for our congregation’s partnership in this effort!

SPIRIT MATTERS

We will meet again on Thursday, November 9, at 7 pm in the Green Room. This newly forming group focuses on spiritual nurture in a group setting with shared leadership. Fourteen people attended the initial interest meetings. Seven met last week. We are an OPEN group. If you are interested, please contact Maureen Nelson or Pastor Robert. SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT AND FAITH-FILLED ENCOURAGEMENT are hard to find in the world. Yet God calls some of us to give those gifts to each other.

Baptism Affirmations

October 23, Trey McKinney, Ella Wilson; Oc-tober 24, Jessica Gibson; October 26, Sawyer Fleig; October 27, Zack Daigle, Lauren Simpson; October 28, Maryelise Outten. We rejoice you are living and serving among us in faith and discipleship!

Adam Monn, Julia Rhyne, Emma Street, and Samantha Walgate will affirm their Baptism through the Rite of Confirmation on Reformation Sunday, October 29 at the second service. They are currently meeting with their mentors to develop a life-long faith-nurturing relationship. Please lift them in prayer as they approach this milestone event in their faith journey!

SUNDAY LUNCH COOKS NEEDED

WE NEED SUNDAY LUNCH COOKS FOR OCTOBER 22 & 29! SUNDAY LUNCH IS A FAVORITE ACTIVITYthat has been going on for four decades at St. Michael. A hot meal is served in the Fellowship Hall starting about 12:15 on most Sundays be- tween Oct. and the end of Lent. Those who partake have remarked that it is an excel- lent time of fellowship among families, friends, and visitors and the best deal in town for a good meal. Cost is only $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for children, and worship visitors eat for free. You can eat and run or hang and talk, whatever suits you. A sign-up chart for cooks is posted in the Gathering Area. Some have committed to cook on the Time and Talent Sheet and just need to choose a week. Others can sign up with any group on any Sunday that fits your schedule. “Veterans” will be more than happy to have the help of “Newbies” if you want to be part of a team with experience. Or, “Newbies” may want to step up to the “plate” and create a new menu or use some tried and true ones in the cookbook beside the refrigerator. If we have no cooks for a Sunday, there will be no lunch served.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA LUTHERAN

Is published six time each year to connect Lutheran people and ministries across our SC Synod of the ELCA. If you would like a subscription, the cost is $10.00 per year. Please notify Stacey in the church office, and place your marked check in the offering plate or mail it to her. The deadline for 2018 subscriptions is October 27.

KATHERINA VON BORA LUTHER

A study of Katherina Von Bora Luther will be led during the Sunday School hour the month of October by Pastor Newell Nelsen. The group will meet in the worship space. Please see Pastor Newell for more information.

CHILDREN’S CHOIR!

Join us every Sunday morning at 9:45 in the choir room for 15 minutes of song and games. At 10:00 you will be excused to go to your Sunday School class. We will begin working on the Christmas program and, hopefully the choir can prepare some songs for church services. Looking forward to seeing and hearing you! Sandi Nelsen.

THE GATHERING COMMITS TO HOUSTON!!!

Our 2018 ELCA Youth gathering will still meet beginning JUNE 27 IN HOUSTON!!! Hurricane Harvey left the venue intact. Some hotel assignments may have to change. Once again our ELCA youth will have the opportunity to be involved in hurricane recovery work as an embod- iment of servant ministry. Pray for Houston and The Gathering even as you pray for Florida and the Caribbean.

“COMPASSIONATE COMPANIONS”

Meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7pm in the Blue Room as an extension of our congregation’s grief support ministry. We seek to provide a sanctuary of human community in and through which we can move forward through the landscape of grief and mourning. This group is open to anyone at any time. Please help us extend the invitation.

2018 FAMILY BEACH RETREAT

We are now booking for 2018 Family Beach Retreat July 15-22. Please sign up on the signup sheet in the Gathering Area. Please contact Cynthia Trout at 414-662 to reserve a room or with any questions.

CHURCH WIDE WORK DAY NOVEMBER 4TH

Please join us on November 4th from 8:30 am until noon to help spruce up our church grounds for the Fall. We wel-come shovels, wheel barrows, rakes. Coffee and refreshments will be served. Many hands make light work!

OUR WEDNESDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY GROUP

has worked through the 150 psalms. Now we will spend three weeks “making the psalms our own.” We will be us- ing the framework outlined in Brueggemann’sSpirituality of the Psalms to claim certain psalms as our own. Join us at 10:30 am in the “Green Room” for fellowship and faith- nurturing conversation. There is always room at the table!

If there is an accumulation of ice or snow on the streets on Sunday morning,
we will cancel the 8:30 service.
We will attempt to hold an 11:00 am service for those who can safely attend,
provided the staff can safely get to St. Michael’s.
As soon as a decision is made it will be recorded on the voice mail system,
posted on the website (if possible) and submitted to News Channels 4 & 7.